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Quotes by Musician
"I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it."
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"And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now."
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"I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime."
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"I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy."
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"He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety-and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked the latter, like leaves covering a snare. You didn't notice the steel jaws until they were impaled in your flesh, and by then it was already far too late to run."
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"Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed."
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"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."
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"As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction."
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"When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star."
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"I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother."
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"You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job."
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"My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church."
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"When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me."
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"I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal."
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"So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage."
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"Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts."
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"The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!"
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"Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that."
Rest,
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"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."
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"It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest."
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"The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song."
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"We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made."
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